Celcite is one of at most half a dozen companies that specialise in SON (Self-Organising Networks) today – software systems that are the "auto-pilot" for mobile networks, configuring and setting parameters across multiple-vendor small and macrocell equipment to maximise system performance and efficiency.
We spoke with Chris Larmour, CMO at Celcite, to understand his perspective of the market status of SON technology generally – what do CTOs think of it, where is it deployed today and how is it evolving. We heard about the difference (and potential conflict) between Distributed (D-SON) vs Centralised SON (C-SON), discuss which functionality belongs in the small cell versus central servers and learnt about the reducing "trust gap" which needs to be crossed prior to mass deployment.